{"id":421572,"date":"2021-04-14T13:58:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=421572"},"modified":"2021-04-14T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:58:25","slug":"dem-house-committee-chairman-blasts-biden-for-dragging-feet-on-defense-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-house-committee-chairman-blasts-biden-for-dragging-feet-on-defense-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem House Committee Chairman Blasts Biden For \u2018Dragging Feet\u2019 on Defense Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-house-committee-chairman-blasts-biden-for-dragging-feet-on-defense-budget%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=421572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"31.34328358209\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Rep. Adam Smith: &#8216;The White House itself is not doing the job they should be doing&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1880.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1879.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Adam-Smith-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Adam-Smith-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Adam-Smith-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Adam-Smith-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tWASHINGTON, DC &#8211; JULY 09: Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith speaks during the US House Armed Services Committee hearing on &#8216;Department of Defense Authorities and Roles Related to Civilian Law Enforcement&#8217;, July 9, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael Reynolds-Pool\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" rel=\"author\" class=\"text-red-700\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 April 14, 2021 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"62.30674002751\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee slammed the Biden administration for its delay in providing Congress a defense budget plan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Adam Smith (D., Wash.), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said the Biden administration is &#8220;dragging their feet&#8221; in delivering the defense budget to Congress at a Reagan Foundation event on Tuesday. Smith also said the White House has ignored his own calls for the administration to move forward on the budget.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I am deeply concerned about the Biden administration dragging their feet on getting us the damn budget,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;The White House itself is not doing the job they should be doing\u2026. I can\u2019t get the White House to take my calls on this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Biden administration officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2021\/04\/hasc-chair-blasts-white-house-for-dragging-their-feet-on-budget\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=EBB%2004.14.21&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">signaled<\/a>&nbsp;that the budget could reach Congress by early May. A controversial domestic agenda, which includes environmental spending, infrastructure legislation, and coronavirus relief, may complicate the timeline for a ready defense budget.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Biden administration announced last week its budget request would call for $715 billion in defense spending, a 0.4 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-08\/biden-proposes-715-billion-for-pentagon-in-first-budget-outline\">drop<\/a>, accounting for inflation, from the 2021 budget. Congressional Republicans blasted the prospect of a shrinking or limited budget as a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/republicans-drawing-new-battle-lines-in-heated-defense-budget-fight\/\">gift<\/a>&#8221; to adversaries such as China and Russia, as fewer defense dollars may prevent the Pentagon from tackling its goals of readying the armed forces and developing crucial technologies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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